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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

At CLEE, we are doing quite a bit of work to promote reduction of methane emissions from all sectors (agriculture (livestock and rice), energy (oil & gas and coal), waste (landfills and sewage)). animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste). Next time: ending deforestation. C of warming by 2050.

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IPCC: Limiting warning to 1.5°C is almost beyond reach?

A Greener Life

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste. It was sombre reading.

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Opinion: Food systems transformation critical to reducing emissions

A Greener Life

Changing the way we produce and consume food could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10.3 This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. While France was the only one whose NDC included comprehensive measures to reduce food loss and waste.

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Food is finally on the table of global environmental summits, but to what end?

Acoel

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula. Image by Charles Echer from Pixabay.

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ESA & COP26:: Day 2: Progress

ESA

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. Controlling the methane emissions, some of it from wasteful accidental release at natural gas wells, is critical for controlling global warming. Hopefully not. Top-down” solutions (e.g.,

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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change

Law Columbia

Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors. From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. The human rights complaint.

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It is the time for nature: World Environment Day 2020

Manning Law

And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future.

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